Gov't radiation decontamination team

DATE, Japan - An employee of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency measures radiation levels at a crop field in Date, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 24, 2011, as part of a pilot program for radiation decontamination launched by the Japanese government the same day. The government also formed a team in the prefecture to promote decontamination.

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